There was a scene
presented to me. It was the night before the Sabbath. That is when that scene
was presented. I looked out of the window, and there was an immense ball of fire
that had come from heaven, and it fell where they were casting buildings with
pillars, especially the pillars were presented to me. And it seemed as if the
ball came right to the building and crushed it, and they saw that it was
branching out, branching out, enlarging, and they began to cry and mourn and
mourn, and wring their hands; and I thought some of our people stood by there,
saying, “Well, it is just what we have been expecting; it is just what we have
been talking about; it is just what we have been talking about.” “You knew it?”
said the people. “You knew it, and never told us about it?” I thought there was
such an agony in their face, such an agony in their appearance.

In the next scene
I was [in] a room where there was a company sitting around as we are here. And
there was one of authority that stood there, and He had maps, and He took the
map, and He put it into the hands of one, and had him look at it. There were
little fine rays of light from heaven that seemed to be coming down, and they
were all prepared to absorb the whole vicinity around. It seemed as if light
was going to be given in the whole vicinity around, and then that was struck
right out, the light was struck out. There was not the message of warning given
to that city that ought to have been given years ago. And then that city, He
pointed out, and another city, and another city, that ought to have had the
light of life in this Southern Field.

That light seemed cut right
off, cut right away and in darkness, and now the words were, “It will be a very
difficult, a much more difficult matter to reach things now, because the enemy
has been getting advantage all these years”—that is what was repeated—”all
these years.” “Now,” said He, “when you consider your neighbor, who is my
neighbor? Put every exercise of your body and mind to work; if you cannot go
yourself, keep your foot off the brake. Don’t put your foot on the brake, and
hold it, so that the carriage cannot move, that the work cannot go.”